07-22-2013, 08:50 AM
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Originally posted by Midnight Rambler
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Originally posted by Britts MOM
The Yellow tent described in the forested area makai is the tent they stayed in. I know this to be true since we visited the area a few days after she was found and I know that the tent they stayed in is Yellow/Grey because her dad bought it for them when they visited in CA. You are correct about the other tent being miles away. The place that you marked on the map (based on the GPS coordinate) is not where their tent was. Their tent was right about where you have the land Bo was purchasing. Very close to the brushy area and the cliff.
That's what I figured, since there are very few places where there is vegetation makai of the lava flow. The actual coordinates there are approximately 19 20'29"N, 154 59'18"W.
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Originally posted by ssshjar_johnson
So these tents were spaced far enough to wonder if this orange tent was involved at all. My question- why the police searched the orange tent. I think they did this because it was closest to the staging area. This tent could be anyone's, it could have nothing to do with this case, but it might. Could it have been a separate tent of just Brittany's. She was known to do yoga/meditation and to do these exercises in close proximity of the lava.
The search warrant says that the "orange tent" is where the clothesline and drag marks were. However the location they give is far out in the middle of the lava flow, with no trees. Given that the coordinates given for the "yellow tent" are over a mile from where it actually was, and it was elsewhere stated that that was their campsite, I have to wonder if they are actually referring to the same one, despite the discrepancies in the discovery dates. Confusing yellow and orange would already be the smallest error here!
I would like to interject right at you wrote that "orange tent...drag marks were"
(Search Warrant of the YELLOW AND GREY TENT, and surrounding area.
Citing the Search Warrant 2013-162; "That on May 30, 2013, at approximately 1110 hours, while walking along a recent lava flow approximately 100 yards south of the campsite, your affiant observed what appeared to be human hair and human tissue along the lava leading in the maki a direction. There also appeared to be drag marks and disturbance to the ground leading in the makai direction. "
I do not believe that it is possible that the detectives made that big of an error here in searching the TWO tents. Not only would they have mistaken the color, but they got the dimensions wrong, the GPS location wrong? Not to mention all the different items at the separate campsites. There were two tents. It is on paper. A Big Island lava local also called my sister the day Brittany was found, and told here that the police still hadn't found Bo and Brittany's tent. They didn't find it for two days. They found the ORANGE tent 28MAY2013, the day Brittany was found because it was in the immediate area and close to her body. They found the YELLOW/GREY tent on the 30MAY2013 because DAVIS and ELARTH guided the detectives to the tent.
(ORANGE tent campsite)"ALMEIDA and TODD
Citing the Search Warrant 2013-161; "Detectives also observed a recently used fire pit at this campsite.